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To me this book revealed a number of things, Churchill's thinking that the empire was a kind of ideal (although the truth is that commonwealth countries came to the rescue of the UK without their being forced in any way to do so in WWII) , England a kind of central moral compass, the US interested in the UK for reasons other than profit (the US helped the UK - hesitantly- in the beginning of WWII but the condition was that the UK should give up their preferred economic policy with the countries of the commonwealth. This way the UK lost its competitive advantage and the US gained economic power) and most of all trying to pay as little tax as possible. His realization of England being only a small country without the commonwealth or as he said the empire must have been painful. I liked the style of the book. It cannot have been easy to write a book critical of Churchill and at the same time recognising his stature and incredible rhetorical skills and his being a great storyteller.